I've had similiar experiences in some games. Civ 3 (granted it's a "wussy" game yes:P) would check for the CD in my drive every 5 minutes and in the process, would freeze all processes in the game up for a few seconds. Quite annoying with how often it checked for the CD. I finally just ripped the ISO with Alcohol and mounted that as a virtual drive. Works fine now (At the time I couldn't find any no-cd cracks, now I see them all over for it).
If it weren't for that, I probably would lit the CD on fire before I was able to discover how buggy Civ 3 actually is.:-X Hehe. But regardless, it is a more enjoyable game experience. Things load faster, when you play multiple games you don't have to worry about switching CD's all the time. Don't have to worry about getting your cd case stolen at a LAN party, etc.
More evidence that not only do users not read the articles, but moderators don't read the comments...;)
Though that is definitely an interesting study in social behavior. All of us randomly posting comments that have nothing to do with each other and then moderating them "accordingly"! It must look like chaos to those on the outside...
(But that explains all those SCO posts that have nothing to do with the story! Ah ha!!!)
To find the precise time that an earthquake occured, you simply look at your seismograph record and note when the ground started shaking. Old paper seismographs allowed one to make a tick mark every second (with a minute mark leaving a type of U shaped mark). To keep accurate time, you can set certain seismographs up to the radio frequency of the atomic clock. As long as you know when you last changed the drum, it's a simple matter to find out when an earthquake occured.
To take it one step further, the latest computer seismographs can precisely record when the earth started moving.
In short, to find out what time an earthquake started, just look at what time the earth started moving. Perhaps I'm not understanding your question though?
I was under the impression (from my university geo course), that to map the inside of the earth using seismic waves, you need to know the exact time and location that a seismic event began at. This would mean only nuclear weapon tests would be useful for seismic studies.
In part you're right, but nuclear weapons tests aren't the only things you can get precise times for. Using seismographs to record earthquakes, scientists can determine exactly when an earthquakes happened by looking at the record from the seismograph.
Volcano lava is mantle material on its way out to the earth's surface. Depositing our waste there is not the safest approach for us surface inhabitants. A more plausible approach might be to bury the waste near subduction zones. But most of these zones are under water and subject to volcanism themselves. It would be rather expensive to do and there is no telling what percentage will come back at us.
Nope. You run into the same problem.
If you look around all major subduction zones on earth, you will notice that you find a pattern. Every single one of them have volcanoes.
Example, Juan De Fuca plate subducting under the northwest U.S., Nazca plate going under South America, Pacific going under the Phillipines and Eurasian plates, etc...
So in short, stuffing them in subduction zones = bad idea.;)
I've always been pretty happy with Google's responses as well. They take the time to make a personalized response. I emailed them a question awhile ago about how one would go about finding what sites are linked to a specific site. The responses I received the very next day:
Hi Dave,
Thank you for your note. Yes, we do offer this kind of search. To find the pages that link to any given URL (say www.stanford.edu , for instance) go to the Google advanced search page at http://www.google.com/advanced_search and do a 'link' search. If you do not want to use our advanced page, you can perform a link search directly from the Google search box by typing link:Stanford.edu or link:www.Stanford.edu
This link search, however, may not return a comprehensive set of results. The results show a sample of the links that point to a page, but this list is in no way indicative of the link structure utilized by Google to formulate a page's PageRank.
To obtain a comprehensive list of the links that point to a page, perform a Google search on your URL. From the result page displayed, select the "Find the web pages that contain the term" link and Google will provide you with the web pages that mention the address.
I'm sure we can think of lots more though. I mean to tack on something else (pardon the pun on your words):
Jurassic Park.
Hell, "The Lost World" wasn't even WRITTEN by Crichton until everyone saw how well Jurassic Park did at the box office, and even then it catered to people who saw the movie... I mean didn't Hammond and Ian both die on the island in the original book? I the Lost World, they are miracously there.
Heck, that is even a perfect example of a great book being turned into a pretty good movie which in turn fuels the source for both a horrible sequel that is both a movie and a book. Sounds confusing!
There may be none. This region has active hydrothermal features, and possibly some uplift. It's possible that the area could host future hydrothermal explosions, but so could other areas beneath the lake and other areas within the Park.
Do any of the features beneath the lake relate to possible volcanic eruptions?
It is very unlikely. All active features are related to faults and hot water (hydrothermal) vents. Identified craters were formed by collapse or as a result of old hydrothermal explosions. Many of the rocks beneath the lake are lava flows more than 100,000 years old.
I read that, however I felt that it was somewhat irrelevant. Yes, the fact that Bechtel created a $125 million dollar mistake is nothing to be smiled upon, and that is the reason why that reactor is not in operation.
However, San Onofre has been through 6 major earthquakes in Southern California since it went online in 1984 and is still operational.
While I realize that Bechtel is a horrible company, I think the fact that it has withstood earthquakes on multiple occasions speaks for itself.
If you want to see one of the greatest examples of Nuclear Power working right in the middle of earthquake country, you need to look no further than Japan, who gets almost one third of their energy from Nuclear power. Yes, I realize nuclear power creates horrible waste disposal problems and is probably not the best way to go for a source of energy. However, I'm more worried about a train carrying nuclear waste derailing near my neighborhood than I am of an earthquake destroying a nuclear power plant.
Why go those routes. Why not Hydro Electric or Geo-thermic or wind and wave. Hell why not all of them. Sure it limits where you can build your power plants but I find that that's always better then sticking nuclear power plants on a major fault line (like San Onofre, oh and a big congratulations to Bechtel for installing one of the reactors backwards thus negating the usefulness of the seismic braces.)
Hydro-electric's usefulness is somewhat limited. All these big lakes behind the dams will eventually fill with silt and no longer be able to produce power.
Geothermal somewhat works, but the areas where this is possible (Magma within ~5-10km of the earth's surface) are limited and many of these areas are already tapped out with geothermal plants.
Could you tell me where you found information that San Onofre is built on a major fault line? I have a geologic map of California and the closest major fault line is over 60 miles away (San Andreas fault).
Of course there are lesser faults such as the Elsinore fault and San Jacinto fault which are slightly closer. In fact, Southern California is riddled with faults, but that should be a non-issue. San Onofre is not built on any fault and is designed to withstand any sort of major earthquake. I'd say it's done a pretty good job so far.
A big part of evaporation is surface area. The more surface area exposed to the sun and heat, the greater amount of water you will have leaving the system.
In fact, slowing a river down doesn't help this either, as there is no water to replenish what evaporates. Perfect examples of this are: Mono Lake, Owens Lake, and the Aral Sea.
NASA is old. They still work under the weight of a crusty 60s-era layer of bureacrats. They are dogmatic, self-important and no doubt there are employees at every level of the organization who are more concerned with their jobs (after decades of having them) than with their work.
You do realize that those 60's era bureacrats accomplished more in a decade than we've been able to try and do in the last 30 years?
I think the problem is that NASA *isn't* being run by 60's era bureacrats...;)
Nope. It's fairly different. News choppers are flying quite a ways above the ground, where the buffetting of wind doesn't dangerously affect them.
The bombers and water dropping helicopters fly within 50 - 100 feet of the ground to make their drops. Gusty wind conditions create an extremely unpredictable environment. A shift in the wind direction can obscure the flight path for the bomber and even a few moments of blindness could mean instant death.
This is despite the fact that gusty wind conditions render the dropping of retardant useless since it will just be blown all over the place, instead of on the intended target.
I actually had a working photo gallery up with all the pics and descriptions, but it crapped out earlier today. Will try to get it back up and running...
The problem with crap like that is that you get nailed in Meta-Moderation since many moderators don't look at what context the comment was written in, nor do they look at the replies.
Marking something like that as redundant/off-topic will most likely be over ruled in M2.:-/
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http://www.ipodbattery.com/
Irregardless... the definition still considers it a word. ;)
http://www.webster.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=IRREG ARDLESS
I've had similiar experiences in some games. Civ 3 (granted it's a "wussy" game yes :P) would check for the CD in my drive every 5 minutes and in the process, would freeze all processes in the game up for a few seconds. Quite annoying with how often it checked for the CD. I finally just ripped the ISO with Alcohol and mounted that as a virtual drive. Works fine now (At the time I couldn't find any no-cd cracks, now I see them all over for it).
:-X Hehe. But regardless, it is a more enjoyable game experience. Things load faster, when you play multiple games you don't have to worry about switching CD's all the time. Don't have to worry about getting your cd case stolen at a LAN party, etc.
If it weren't for that, I probably would lit the CD on fire before I was able to discover how buggy Civ 3 actually is.
More evidence that not only do users not read the articles, but moderators don't read the comments... ;)
Though that is definitely an interesting study in social behavior. All of us randomly posting comments that have nothing to do with each other and then moderating them "accordingly"! It must look like chaos to those on the outside...
(But that explains all those SCO posts that have nothing to do with the story! Ah ha!!!)
Perhaps I'm confused as to what you're asking:
To find the precise time that an earthquake occured, you simply look at your seismograph record and note when the ground started shaking. Old paper seismographs allowed one to make a tick mark every second (with a minute mark leaving a type of U shaped mark). To keep accurate time, you can set certain seismographs up to the radio frequency of the atomic clock. As long as you know when you last changed the drum, it's a simple matter to find out when an earthquake occured.
To take it one step further, the latest computer seismographs can precisely record when the earth started moving.
In short, to find out what time an earthquake started, just look at what time the earth started moving. Perhaps I'm not understanding your question though?
Doh... I'm a genius. In my relative haste to feel geeky and answer a question, I didn't read that you had already considered volcanism. :-X
Watch out folks. Many may not read the articles, but I don't read the comments!
I was under the impression (from my university geo course), that to map the inside of the earth using seismic waves, you need to know the exact time and location that a seismic event began at. This would mean only nuclear weapon tests would be useful for seismic studies.
In part you're right, but nuclear weapons tests aren't the only things you can get precise times for. Using seismographs to record earthquakes, scientists can determine exactly when an earthquakes happened by looking at the record from the seismograph.
Volcano lava is mantle material on its way out to the earth's surface. Depositing our waste there is not the safest approach for us surface inhabitants. A more plausible approach might be to bury the waste near subduction zones. But most of these zones are under water and subject to volcanism themselves. It would be rather expensive to do and there is no telling what percentage will come back at us.
;)
Nope. You run into the same problem.
If you look around all major subduction zones on earth, you will notice that you find a pattern. Every single one of them have volcanoes.
Example, Juan De Fuca plate subducting under the northwest U.S., Nazca plate going under South America, Pacific going under the Phillipines and Eurasian plates, etc...
So in short, stuffing them in subduction zones = bad idea.
I know the article is a dupe, but so is this comment. :P
I've always been pretty happy with Google's responses as well. They take the time to make a personalized response. I emailed them a question awhile ago about how one would go about finding what sites are linked to a specific site. The responses I received the very next day:
Hi Dave,
Thank you for your note. Yes, we do offer this kind of search. To find the pages that link to any given URL (say www.stanford.edu , for instance) go to the Google advanced search page at http://www.google.com/advanced_search and do a 'link' search. If you do not want to use our advanced page, you can perform a link search directly from the Google search box by typing link:Stanford.edu or link:www.Stanford.edu
This link search, however, may not return a comprehensive set of results. The results show a sample of the links that point to a page, but this list is in no way indicative of the link structure utilized by Google to formulate a page's PageRank.
To obtain a comprehensive list of the links that point to a page, perform a Google search on your URL. From the result page displayed, select the
"Find the web pages that contain the term" link and Google will provide you with the web pages that mention the address.
Regards,
The Google Team
I'm sure we can think of lots more though. I mean to tack on something else (pardon the pun on your words):
Jurassic Park.
Hell, "The Lost World" wasn't even WRITTEN by Crichton until everyone saw how well Jurassic Park did at the box office, and even then it catered to people who saw the movie... I mean didn't Hammond and Ian both die on the island in the original book? I the Lost World, they are miracously there.
Heck, that is even a perfect example of a great book being turned into a pretty good movie which in turn fuels the source for both a horrible sequel that is both a movie and a book. Sounds confusing!
From the same website.
:P
So what's the big deal?
There may be none. This region has active hydrothermal features, and possibly some uplift. It's possible that the area could host future hydrothermal explosions, but so could other areas beneath the lake and other areas within the Park.
Do any of the features beneath the lake relate to possible volcanic eruptions?
It is very unlikely. All active features are related to faults and hot water (hydrothermal) vents. Identified craters were formed by collapse or as a result of old hydrothermal explosions. Many of the rocks beneath the lake are lava flows more than 100,000 years old.
I don't think we have too much to worry about
Another way to ask google to tell you the Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything.
I read that, however I felt that it was somewhat irrelevant. Yes, the fact that Bechtel created a $125 million dollar mistake is nothing to be smiled upon, and that is the reason why that reactor is not in operation.
However, San Onofre has been through 6 major earthquakes in Southern California since it went online in 1984 and is still operational.
Despite the Bechtel incident, San Onofre *is* built to withstand earthquakes: A 7.0 directly underneath the plant.
While I realize that Bechtel is a horrible company, I think the fact that it has withstood earthquakes on multiple occasions speaks for itself.
If you want to see one of the greatest examples of Nuclear Power working right in the middle of earthquake country, you need to look no further than Japan, who gets almost one third of their energy from Nuclear power.
Yes, I realize nuclear power creates horrible waste disposal problems and is probably not the best way to go for a source of energy. However, I'm more worried about a train carrying nuclear waste derailing near my neighborhood than I am of an earthquake destroying a nuclear power plant.
Why go those routes. Why not Hydro Electric or Geo-thermic or wind and wave. Hell why not all of them. Sure it limits where you can build your power plants but I find that that's always better then sticking nuclear power plants on a major fault line (like San Onofre, oh and a big congratulations to Bechtel for installing one of the reactors backwards thus negating the usefulness of the seismic braces.)
Hydro-electric's usefulness is somewhat limited. All these big lakes behind the dams will eventually fill with silt and no longer be able to produce power.
Geothermal somewhat works, but the areas where this is possible (Magma within ~5-10km of the earth's surface) are limited and many of these areas are already tapped out with geothermal plants.
Could you tell me where you found information that San Onofre is built on a major fault line? I have a geologic map of California and the closest major fault line is over 60 miles away (San Andreas fault).
Of course there are lesser faults such as the Elsinore fault and San Jacinto fault which are slightly closer. In fact, Southern California is riddled with faults, but that should be a non-issue. San Onofre is not built on any fault and is designed to withstand any sort of major earthquake. I'd say it's done a pretty good job so far.
Well it was a good try :)
A big part of evaporation is surface area. The more surface area exposed to the sun and heat, the greater amount of water you will have leaving the system.
In fact, slowing a river down doesn't help this either, as there is no water to replenish what evaporates. Perfect examples of this are: Mono Lake, Owens Lake, and the Aral Sea.
They already have 4gig Compact Flash cards.
;)
Aren't these not really flash/solid state cards though? I thought these contained those little IBM Microdrives in them?
Of course then again, I guess it doesn't ultimately matter, it's still 4gb on something slightly larger than a quarter
NASA is old. They still work under the weight of a crusty 60s-era layer of bureacrats. They are dogmatic, self-important and no doubt there are employees at every level of the organization who are more concerned with their jobs (after decades of having them) than with their work.
;)
You do realize that those 60's era bureacrats accomplished more in a decade than we've been able to try and do in the last 30 years?
I think the problem is that NASA *isn't* being run by 60's era bureacrats...
Nope. It's fairly different. News choppers are flying quite a ways above the ground, where the buffetting of wind doesn't dangerously affect them.
The bombers and water dropping helicopters fly within 50 - 100 feet of the ground to make their drops. Gusty wind conditions create an extremely unpredictable environment. A shift in the wind direction can obscure the flight path for the bomber and even a few moments of blindness could mean instant death.
This is despite the fact that gusty wind conditions render the dropping of retardant useless since it will just be blown all over the place, instead of on the intended target.
Err, nice troll I guess.
In general, the tanker support wouldn't have mattered. It's been too windy for them to fly.
My pictures of the Old Fire burning north of San Bernardino. These were taken Saturday night and Sunday Morning (Day 2 of that blaze burning).
The majority of the pictures are taken from Strawberry Peak which is in between Running Springs and Crestline.
Linkage
I actually had a working photo gallery up with all the pics and descriptions, but it crapped out earlier today. Will try to get it back up and running...
The problem with crap like that is that you get nailed in Meta-Moderation since many moderators don't look at what context the comment was written in, nor do they look at the replies.
:-/
Marking something like that as redundant/off-topic will most likely be over ruled in M2.
To add to that:
The Pleistocene ended roughly 10,000 years ago (which was the last of the great ice ages). What happens when you come out of an ice age? You warm up.
Granted, this is just another one of the many theories around that try to explain for the increase in average temperatures.
For some strange reason, I still remember the voice of an old man in the game who asked, "Want some rye?? 'Course you do!"
However, I can't for the life of me remember anything else about that game.